I just finished watching Office Space. I love that movie.
It's about 11 PM local time. The space shuttle is supposed to land around 2 AM local time. Since I don't have to work tomorrow, I'm going to try to stay up for it. No promises though. I haven't bothered to get cable TV yet (no CNN), but I found a webcast.
Since I have some time on my hands before then (and I finally graded those prelabs I had been putting off) I am thinking about crazy stuff. Like how I hate batteries. It just seems to me there's got to be a better way to store energy. Unfortunately my background is in physics, not chemistry, so I really have no idea how batteries work, or what a better alternative would be.
Then there's my professed interest in solar power, photovoltaics and whatnot. My physics background SHOULD be able to make all that clear, but semiconductors were not gone over real well. Hell, I know less about transistors now than I did before physics tried to explain them (I took some EE before that). I'm not entirely happy with my undergraduate education. To improve this, my grad classes are going to be heavy on Solid State Physics. I think Oregon State is trying to go big time in optics, but they do have a good Solid State program here, so I'm in a good position. I get the impression that's going to be important in whatever I go into.
(sooner or later I'm going to have to stop saying "whatever I go into" and go into something.)
I've also been sentenced to a year of Quantum Mechanics. They don't think I have deficiencies in anything, they just feel QM is good for everyone to have. I also managed to talk them into giving me E&M as well. At least I kind of like E&M. Then I've got my business classes, and a bunch of seminars on the side. I'll be busy.
Dr. Warren recommended I take a stupid physical activity class to round everything out. I agree. I like the looks of the Badminton class. I remember Badminton fondly from my required high school gym class. I teamed up with another band geek in that course. We sucked at everything except Badminton and swimming, but we didn't care. Basketball was especially painful. People assume that because I'm tall I can play basketball, but I have no talent for it. On top of that you've got all of basketball's ridiculous rules, and you've got a recipe for failure worthy of Emeril. BAM! Consider it kicked up a notch.
There's also a 'Relaxation' class. No Wallyball though. Or archery. I got to the longbow part in my book of wonder weapons, and now I want to try archery.
Edit: Now they're saying the shuttle is supposed to land around 4 AM local time. To hell with that, I'm going to bed.
4 comments:
Shuttle landing postponed because of bad weather. Good thing you went to bed. Hurry up and wait . . . isn't it Nasa who came up with that?
Look into something like golf, tennis, or some kind of "fit for life" (i.e., exercise types -- gym equipement, pilates, whatever) course that will last beyond college.......some minor former school board person once tried to get that to be more the curriculum focus back in high school but failed -- sorry!
Yeah, half the people I meet ask me if I play basketball. I've even had someone say that it was a "waste of height" because I didn't play.
Have you heard of Fry's? (www.frys.com) There's one in Wilsonville, OR. Fry's is geek heaven. It's as big as Wal-mart, but with all tech stuff.
Oh, and if you can find a place to stay between Seattle and your place, I can meet you there and we can hang out this weekend. Either that, or we can make it a all-day Sunday thing.
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